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Excessive Spam, Junk Mail from "geeksquad" email address?
I have the same problem with this email address junk. Tried every to block this. Tried outlook support, no solutions. Apparently this ahold has better knowledge than Microsoft. I will continue to delete this junk mail. Hopefully Microsoft will hire someone smarter than this geek.
- The Outlook rule didn't work for you?
You might want to try a freeware app called MailWasher. It allows you set up rules pretty easily. It honors things like domain blacklisting that seem to be hit or miss for Outlook. There are also e-mail filters to automatically delete certain phrases found in spam such as Orangetheory, canvas prints, Tommy Chong, LeafFilter Partner, etc.. They are all automatically deleted now. It's a pretty good tool.- No, the thing I posted above works perfect. When I get bulk spam from a domain like geeksquad.com. Normally the info, the actual address is different. So, anyone emailing from geeksquad.com is automatically deleted.
- I posted the Outlook rule header fix on 11/30/22 in this thread. lol.
I have since used MailWasher in conjunction with Outlook rule headers because it's easier to view the header contents without copying/pasting them to Notepad. Outlook gives a very small window to view the entire header.
Try this, this is the way I have managed this. Just be careful as if this keyword is anywhere the message, it will delete it. You will need to add a keyword that each "spam" uses. I have list of like 15 or 20 built up now, and I see 0 of them, I even went into the spam folder picked one that I got tons of emails from and added them to this and never even in my spam folder.
Rules> New rule> Under "Add a Condition", pull down the menu and select "Message header includes" and put in, for this example, "geeksquad.com". For each spam, I would do the same for their email address, normally spoofed. Do NOT put the whole email, just the ending "doman.com" etc.
Then go to "Add an Action" and select "Delete".This will also stop those who use different emails but at the same domain.
From this point forward, geeksquad.com emails will never be seen again, add who you want to stop to your needs.
This was done on Outlook.live.com
